Posted on 09/16/2023 3:07:53 PM PDT by CottonBall
This is an ongoing thread – meaning come back to chat, post information, or ask questions any time. Hopefully the thread won’t stagnate and I’ll do better at posting weekly (or bi-weekly) topics than I have in the past. (anyone willing to post a topic now and then we'll be highly praised and appreciated).
We are in for some bumpy rides, and prepping can only help. If for peace of mind, if nothing else. We have a wonderful gardening thread and a current-events survival/prepping thread, and hopefully this one can piggyback off of those, maybe having a longer discussion about certain topics or … whatever. It's your thread, do what you like with it! (civilly, of course)
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #2
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #3
The thing about onions and turnips is that although they are root veggies, they do not grow completely underground. They are about half way above ground, so theoretically, even if you don’t have really good dirt, you should still be able to get a decent crop.
I have a recipe for Oatmeal-Pumpkin Bread that you’d never know had either in it. And it’s lower in flour carbs than regular bread.
Most of my cans just have one date, they don’t even explain what it is.
I love Nutella!!!
I love how much but I’ve never thought about a sweet version. Why not! Thanks for the recipe
“I prep because i believe we have a group of globalists who want to control everything, include what we eat”
Very very well put, that’s me as well.
And I think the first thing they will do is make food scarce. Hungry people are more controllable. And then after that they are willing to eat bugs.
“I grow some of my own herbs, sage, thyme, parsley, basil, rosemary, chives, garlic and oregano”
Nice! I typically only grow chives and basil during the summer. I had an oregano plant at the other house that wintered over. I would like to plant some again. I love thyme and it Winters over here fairly well, it’s a little hard to get started.
Mainly I need the room to grow it. We’re on a hill and don’t have a lot of flat ground. What I would really like to do is get rid of the Shrubbery around the house and plant food plants. Hubby isn’t real excited about that. But he’s not really a prepper other than enjoying buying guns.
“Fortunately, I knew of a couple specialty stores and went they and they were well stocked with those items. People were n ot even thinking outside the box.”
Great idea, I’ll try to remember that for next time. Cuz you know, there will be a next time, the election is coming up.
“Other things to prep for are first aid supplies, toiletries, cleaning supplies, paper good, laundry detergent”
That sounds like a good next topic
Oregano is quite hardy. Sage is pretty good and that grows as a shrub. The oregano makes a great ground cover and spreads readily.
Honestly, even people in HOA’s which are being snots about what you can grow, would probably not recognize a lot of herbs as food. They looks like ground covers and are lush and have pretty flowers.
They could easily pass as ornamentals.
“My grandmothers taught me that you need only buy five food items at the store; flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and tea/coffee. Everything else you can either grow yourself, do with out or work around”
I love that self-sufficiency way of thinking.
I never heard of Yaupon holly, I assume that can be grown?
“Don’t let canned coconut milk go past the date”
Oh it, I definitely won’t now!
” I can give one suggestion to anyone planning to survival garden it would be, learn how to grow potatoes and kale. It is not as easy as it looks. But it is the food that will keep you alive.
And you can make something that looks less like a garden and more like a weed patch”
Those are great suggestions. I did grow potatoes and kale at the other house. The ground was really too Rocky for the potatoes. So I think a raised bed is in order. Although it’s hard to make a raised bed appear like it appeared randomly.
Very interesting on the yogurt. Do you think in survival times, yogurt would have a bigger place than milk?
“In the fall when the tops have died down, I just lift and bucket or pipe sections and dig through the wood chips and pick up the potatoes, which tend to be much cleaner than those in the dirt. I have also discovered that I was having problems with potatoes in the dirt being chewed up, like the slugs got to them. That never happen ed with the bucket potatoes.”
what a great idea - I’m saving it 8n a file ;)
That’s true. In Bakersfield rosemary plants were used as shrubbery. I’m disappointed I can’t grow them here, they wouldn’t make it through the winter. How do you make yours last?
I’m going to try and go back to the growing potatoes in feed bags. I have tried both methods and I have decided i get a better yield in the bags. They just drain better and I don’t have to deal with making my soil soft enough. Red clay is a bear for root veggies.
Anyway, I’m going to try the wood chip idea! We have a ton of them from trees that fell in a storm last summer and we were trying to decide what to do with them!
I have creeping thyme growing in various places. For me dill is another that will pop up and grow anywhere. I’ve planted kale, cabbage, and chives in various places as part of my landscaping too.
I don’t.
I just bought some seeds, but I have had very good luck with buying a nice bushy plant for a few dollars at Wal-mart and rooting the cuttings.
The problem with last summer was that it was a very wet summer and rosemary likes it much drier. I’m going to try a new place to plant them this year.
There is the option of taking some cuttings in the fall and rooting them and growing it inside for the winter. The only complication is hardening them off in the spring. I try to put my plants on our somewhat sheltered porch during the winters when the temperatures are mild enough. In the sun and light breeze, it keeps them from getting too leggy.
You can’t forget to bring them in at night, however if it gets too cold.
Chives are winter hardy.
It tastes slightly like yerba mate which makes sense as it is same family. If you live in the deep south you can grow tea. There is a tea plantation in South Carolina.
Caffeine not only gets you going in the morning but helps pain killers work better which, if you can not get the OTCs is a consideration. A tea of meadowsweet and yaupon works much better then willow bark and will tear up your stomach less.
People think opiate pain killers will be the desired thing but "knock you on your butt" pain killers can be made fairly easily from a variety of plants. What is much harder to make is a mild pain killer that will still leave you clear headed.
No, I am not giving out recipes. I do not need the DEA stopping by for a visit. If you look in old herbals you will find how to do it. The plants are quite legal to grow and even use but not to use make anything but food.
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